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Connect the S-Video cable and audio leads (optional) to the S-Video out port and audio jack ports as shown below on your ThinkPad system to your TV.

The S-Video port is typically located on the left side or back of the system

Right click a blank area on the desktop and click Properties.

Click the Settings tab.

Below is an image of the settings tab:

Click the Advanced button.

Click the ATI Displays tab

Above the graphic of the TV, there are two tabs - Power and TV

Click the Power tab (the circle with the line in it) and then click the Apply button. When asked if you want to keep the settings, select Yes.

You can now click the TV tab to view the different settings.

There are four tabs available once the TV tab is opened.

Attributes: This allows you to adjust the TV's Brightness, Contrast, and Color Saturation with a Defaults button to return to normal settings.Adjustments: This allows you to adjust the Screen Position and the Vertical and Horizontal Screen Size. It is limited to usually five clicks.Advanced: This allows you to adjust the S-Video Sharpness, Composite Dot Crawl, and Flicker removal by adjusting Chroma and Luma settings.Format: This allows you to adjust the Format by Country or Format (i.e. NTSC or PAL - all versions are listed).

Notes:

You can enable the video-out setting without rebooting. Simply close and reopen the Display Properties windows with the cable attached to enable the video-out setting.Fn + F7 to switch between displays only works once. It will change back to the LCD, but the TV settings still show in the above mentioned windows. You can change back to TV out without rebooting the system. Just close and reopen the Display Properties window with the cable attached to switch back to the TV.

Setup instructions for Intel Extreme Graphics Chipset

Connect the S-Video cable and audio leads (optional) to the S-Video out port and audio jack ports as shown below on your ThinkPad system to your TV.

The S-Video port is typically located on the left side or back of the system

Right click a blank area on the desktop and move the mouse arrow down to Graphics Options, then to Output To as shown below.

There are several options available to display to the TV.

Setup instructions for S3 Graphic Chipset

Connect the S-Video cable and audio leads (optional) to the S-Video out port and audio jack ports as shown below on your ThinkPad system to your TV.

The S-Video port is typically located on the left side or back of the system

Connect the S-Video cable and audio leads (optional) to the S-Video out port and audio jack ports as shown below on your ThinkPad system to your TV.

The S-Video port is typically located on the left side or back of the system

Right click a blank area on the desktop and click Properties.

Click the Settings tab.

Click the Advanced button.

Click the Display Device tab.

Click the TV button.

Note: Click the NTSC or PAL tab to adjust the video format required for your TV.

Click the Apply button.

Video Formats

You need to make sure that the video format selected on your computer is the same as the video format required for your TV.

NTSC (National Television System Committee) is a video standard used in the United States and a variety of other countries, such as Japan. NTSC format it can have a maximum resolution up to 525 lines with a vertical frequency of 60hz.

PAL (Phase Alternating Line) is a video standard used in countries such as the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and more use PAL as their video standard. PAL format can have a maximum resolution up to 625 lines with a vertical frequency of 50Hz. There are different types of PAL standards, one of which uses a vertical frequency of 60Hz instead of 50Hz.